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131_14	In 1934, Wirén moved to Stockholm with his bride, the Irish cellist, Noel Franks, whom he had met
131_15	in Paris; their daughter, Annika, was born in 1947. In 1937, the couple set up home permanently in
131_16	Danderyd, just north of Stockholm. As well as composing, Wirén regularly played his main
131_17	instrument, the piano, on Swedish Radio during the 1930s; he also devoted himself to chamber music
131_18	in the 1930s and 40s; although he conducted in a recording of his Sinfonietta, he hated conducting.
131_19	He was music critic at the "Svenska Morgonbladet" from 1938 to 1946, and in 1947 became
131_20	vice-chairman of the Society of Swedish Composers. From 1948, he spent summers on the island of
131_21	Björkö, in Stockholm's archipelago. He served as a member of the board of directors of the Royal
131_22	Swedish Opera from 1962 to 1971. His TV ballet Den elaka drottningen (The Evil Queen) won the 1960
131_23	Prix Italia. He also wrote the music for the Swedish entry for the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest,
131_24	Annorstädes vals (Absent Friend), sung by Ingvar Wixell. He retired from composing in 1970,
131_25	commenting, "One should stop in time, while one still has time to stop in time."
131_26	He died at Danderyd on 19 April 1986.
131_27	Music
131_28	Wirén's output, which ranges from serious to popular, is notable for its quality rather than
131_29	quantity, and a number of his works were refused opus numbers or withdrawn. He once commented that
131_30	his first desire was to entertain and please, and compose listener-friendly "modern" music. He was
131_31	reluctant to write for the voice (in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest entry, Alf Henrikson wrote
131_32	the lyrics after Wirén had composed the music).
131_33	Neoclassical pieces from Wirén's early Parisian period, including the Piano Trio (1933) and the
131_34	Sinfonietta (1933–34), are melodically and rhythmically entertaining.
131_35	Upon his return to Sweden, he composed his first two symphonies and his most famous work, the
131_36	Serenade for Strings (1937); the spirit of this serenade may also be found in the finale of his
131_37	second symphony (1939). Wirén went on to compose five symphonies, concertos and other orchestral
131_38	works, including music for the stage and film scores, as well as instrumental and chamber music,
131_39	including a series of string quartets.
131_40	His musical style on return from Paris remained broadly neoclassical; melodic, energetic and with
131_41	high spirits. Towards the mid-1940s Wirén became more serious in style, perhaps under the influence
131_42	of Jean Sibelius. Wirén also developed a personal technique, first used in the third string quartet
131_43	(1941–45), of gradual motivic transformation, avoiding repetition (metamorphosis technique). He
131_44	pursued this approach in his third symphony (1944), where the first motif in the first movement,
131_45	based on a step-wise Dorian mode progression, is transformed during the movement and then echoed in
131_46	the last three movements. Motivic tautness also characterizes the deeply expressive fourth
131_47	symphony (1952), as well as his rather cooler later works, including the fifth symphony (1964) and
131_48	fifth string quartet (1970).
131_49	Compositions
131_50	Symphonies Symphony No. 1, Op. 3 (1932), withdrawn and never performed
131_51	Sinfonietta, Op. 7a (1933–34); Wirén's aborted attempt at a second symphony, subsequently
131_52	refashioned into the Op. 7a
131_53	Symphony No. 2, Op. 14 (1938–39) Symphony No. 3, Op. 20 (1943–44) Symphony No. 4, Op. 27 (1951–52)
131_54	Symphony No. 5, Op. 38 (1963–64)
131_55	Concert works Cello Concerto, Op. 10 (1936) Violin Concerto, Op. 23 (1946)
131_56	Piano Concerto, Op. 26 (1950) Concertino for flute and small orchestra, Op. 44 (1972)
131_57	Other orchestral Concert Overture 1, Op. 2 (1931) Two Orchestral Pieces, Op. 7b (1934)
131_58	Serenade for Strings, Op. 11 (1937) Concert Overture 2, Op. 16 (1940) Little Suite, Op. 17 (1941)
131_59	Romantic suite, Op. 22 (1943, rev. 1961) Lustspelsuvertyr, Op. 21 (1945)
131_60	Divertimento, Op. 29 (1954–57) Triptych for small orchestra, Op. 33 (1958)
131_61	Music for strings, Op. 40 (1966)
131_62	Chamber music String Quartet 1 String Quartet 2, Op. 9 (1935) String Quartet 3, Op. 18 (1941)
131_63	String Quartet 4, Op. 28 (1952–53) String Quartet 5, Op. 41 (1970) Piano trio 1, Op. 6 (1933)
131_64	Piano trio 2, Op. 36 (1961) Wind quintet, Op. 42 (1971)
131_65	Quartet for flute, oboe, clarinet and cello, Op. 31 (1956)
131_66	Sonatina for violin and piano, Op. 15 (1940) Sonatina for cello and piano 1, Op. 1 (1931)
131_67	Sonatina for cello and piano 2, Op. 4 (1933) Miniature suite for cello and piano, Op. 8a (1934)
131_68	Miniature suite for piano trio, Op. 8b (1934)
131_69	Instrumental Theme with variations for piano, Op. 5 (1933)
131_70	Small ironic pieces for piano, Op. 19 (1942–45) Sonatina for piano, Op. 25 (1950)
131_71	Improvisations for piano, Op. 35 (1959) Little serenade for guitar, Op. 39 (1964)
131_72	Little suite for piano, Op. 43 (1971)
131_73	Choral Titania for women’s voices, words by Gustaf Fröding (1942)
131_74	Three sea poems a capella, words by Karin Boye (1963)
131_75	Songs Livet och skrifterna ("En helig man"), words by Nils Ferlin (1934)
131_76	Mitt trollslott står i skogens bryn, words by August Strindberg (1934)
131_77	To your bed, Op. 13a, An autumn evening, Op. 13b, words by Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1938)
131_78	Jungfru Maria and Malenavisorna, Op. 13 a-b (1938), words by Erik Axel Karlfeldt
131_79	Annorstädes vals, words by Alf Henrikson (1965)
131_80	Works for the stage
131_81	Ballet Oscarian ball, Op. 24, after Gustaf Fröding’s "Balen" (1948–49), (Royal Stockholm Opera,
131_82	1950, choreography by Birgit Cullberg)
131_83	Radio operetta, Gult, rött och blått, libretto by Georg Eliasson (Swedish Radio, 1940)
131_84	Radio operetta, Den glada patiencen, libretto by Georg Eliasson (Swedish Radio, 1941)
131_85	Incidental music for Madame Bovary, (Gustave Flaubert), Blancheteatern 1939
131_86	Stage music for Amorina (Carl Jonas Love Almqvist), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1951
131_87	Music for The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare (1943), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern
131_88	Incidental music for Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1953
131_89	Stage music for Gudens hustru, (Vilhelm Moberg), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1954
131_90	Music for A midsummer night’s dream, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1955
131_91	Music for The Queen's Tiara (Carl Jonas Love Almqvist), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1957
131_92	Ballet Take your place on stage
131_93	Ballet, Den elaka drottningen, Sveriges Television 1960, choreography by Birgit Cullberg
131_94	Stage music for Hamlet (Shakespeare), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1960
131_95	Stage music for King John (Shakespeare), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1961
131_96	Film music Man glömmer ingenting (One Forgets Nothing) (1942)
131_97	Oss tjuvar emellan eller En burk ananas (1945) Grönt guld (1949) Only a Mother (1949)
131_98	Miss Julie (1951) A Lesson in Love (1954) Wild Birds (1955) The Phantom Carriage (1958)
131_99	De sista stegen (A matter of morals) (1961)
131_100	Recordings
131_101	As conductor Wirén recorded his Sinfonietta in May 1948 for Cupol, reissued on Phono Suecia PSCD
131_102	79, 1995.
131_103	References
131_104	External links A list of Wirén autographs with some information about dates
131_105	Broadcast from 1960 of Wirén's Violin Concerto Op. 23 (British Library)
131_106	1905 births 1986 deaths 20th-century classical composers Litteris et Artibus recipients
131_107	Swedish opera composers Male opera composers Royal College of Music, Stockholm alumni
131_108	People from Nora Municipality Swedish classical composers Swedish male classical composers
131_109	Swedish classical pianists Male classical pianists Swedish film score composers
131_110	Male film score composers Swedish music critics 20th-century classical pianists
131_111	20th-century Swedish male musicians 20th-century Swedish musicians
132_0	Jason Eli Becker (born July 22, 1969) is an American virtuoso musician, songwriter and composer. At
132_1	the age of 16, he became part of the Shrapnel Records-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty

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In 1934, Wirén moved to Stockholm with his bride, the Irish cellist, Noel Franks, whom he had met

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in Paris; their daughter, Annika, was born in 1947. In 1937, the couple set up home permanently in

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Danderyd, just north of Stockholm. As well as composing, Wirén regularly played his main

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instrument, the piano, on Swedish Radio during the 1930s; he also devoted himself to chamber music

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in the 1930s and 40s; although he conducted in a recording of his Sinfonietta, he hated conducting.

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He was music critic at the "Svenska Morgonbladet" from 1938 to 1946, and in 1947 became

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vice-chairman of the Society of Swedish Composers. From 1948, he spent summers on the island of

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Björkö, in Stockholm's archipelago. He served as a member of the board of directors of the Royal

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Swedish Opera from 1962 to 1971. His TV ballet Den elaka drottningen (The Evil Queen) won the 1960

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Prix Italia. He also wrote the music for the Swedish entry for the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest,

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Annorstädes vals (Absent Friend), sung by Ingvar Wixell. He retired from composing in 1970,

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commenting, "One should stop in time, while one still has time to stop in time."

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He died at Danderyd on 19 April 1986.

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Music

131_28

Wirén's output, which ranges from serious to popular, is notable for its quality rather than

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quantity, and a number of his works were refused opus numbers or withdrawn. He once commented that

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his first desire was to entertain and please, and compose listener-friendly "modern" music. He was

131_31

reluctant to write for the voice (in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest entry, Alf Henrikson wrote

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the lyrics after Wirén had composed the music).

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Neoclassical pieces from Wirén's early Parisian period, including the Piano Trio (1933) and the

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Sinfonietta (1933–34), are melodically and rhythmically entertaining.

131_35

Upon his return to Sweden, he composed his first two symphonies and his most famous work, the

131_36

Serenade for Strings (1937); the spirit of this serenade may also be found in the finale of his

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second symphony (1939). Wirén went on to compose five symphonies, concertos and other orchestral

131_38

works, including music for the stage and film scores, as well as instrumental and chamber music,

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including a series of string quartets.

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His musical style on return from Paris remained broadly neoclassical; melodic, energetic and with

131_41

high spirits. Towards the mid-1940s Wirén became more serious in style, perhaps under the influence

131_42

of Jean Sibelius. Wirén also developed a personal technique, first used in the third string quartet

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(1941–45), of gradual motivic transformation, avoiding repetition (metamorphosis technique). He

131_44

pursued this approach in his third symphony (1944), where the first motif in the first movement,

131_45

based on a step-wise Dorian mode progression, is transformed during the movement and then echoed in

131_46

the last three movements. Motivic tautness also characterizes the deeply expressive fourth

131_47

symphony (1952), as well as his rather cooler later works, including the fifth symphony (1964) and

131_48

fifth string quartet (1970).

131_49

Compositions

131_50

Symphonies Symphony No. 1, Op. 3 (1932), withdrawn and never performed

131_51

Sinfonietta, Op. 7a (1933–34); Wirén's aborted attempt at a second symphony, subsequently

131_52

refashioned into the Op. 7a

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Symphony No. 2, Op. 14 (1938–39) Symphony No. 3, Op. 20 (1943–44) Symphony No. 4, Op. 27 (1951–52)

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Symphony No. 5, Op. 38 (1963–64)

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Concert works Cello Concerto, Op. 10 (1936) Violin Concerto, Op. 23 (1946)

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Piano Concerto, Op. 26 (1950) Concertino for flute and small orchestra, Op. 44 (1972)

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Other orchestral Concert Overture 1, Op. 2 (1931) Two Orchestral Pieces, Op. 7b (1934)

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Serenade for Strings, Op. 11 (1937) Concert Overture 2, Op. 16 (1940) Little Suite, Op. 17 (1941)

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Romantic suite, Op. 22 (1943, rev. 1961) Lustspelsuvertyr, Op. 21 (1945)

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Divertimento, Op. 29 (1954–57) Triptych for small orchestra, Op. 33 (1958)

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Music for strings, Op. 40 (1966)

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Chamber music String Quartet 1 String Quartet 2, Op. 9 (1935) String Quartet 3, Op. 18 (1941)

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String Quartet 4, Op. 28 (1952–53) String Quartet 5, Op. 41 (1970) Piano trio 1, Op. 6 (1933)

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Piano trio 2, Op. 36 (1961) Wind quintet, Op. 42 (1971)

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Quartet for flute, oboe, clarinet and cello, Op. 31 (1956)

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Sonatina for violin and piano, Op. 15 (1940) Sonatina for cello and piano 1, Op. 1 (1931)

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Sonatina for cello and piano 2, Op. 4 (1933) Miniature suite for cello and piano, Op. 8a (1934)

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Miniature suite for piano trio, Op. 8b (1934)

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Instrumental Theme with variations for piano, Op. 5 (1933)

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Small ironic pieces for piano, Op. 19 (1942–45) Sonatina for piano, Op. 25 (1950)

131_71

Improvisations for piano, Op. 35 (1959) Little serenade for guitar, Op. 39 (1964)

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Little suite for piano, Op. 43 (1971)

131_73

Choral Titania for women’s voices, words by Gustaf Fröding (1942)

131_74

Three sea poems a capella, words by Karin Boye (1963)

131_75

Songs Livet och skrifterna ("En helig man"), words by Nils Ferlin (1934)

131_76

Mitt trollslott står i skogens bryn, words by August Strindberg (1934)

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To your bed, Op. 13a, An autumn evening, Op. 13b, words by Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1938)

131_78

Jungfru Maria and Malenavisorna, Op. 13 a-b (1938), words by Erik Axel Karlfeldt

131_79

Annorstädes vals, words by Alf Henrikson (1965)

131_80

Works for the stage

131_81

Ballet Oscarian ball, Op. 24, after Gustaf Fröding’s "Balen" (1948–49), (Royal Stockholm Opera,

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1950, choreography by Birgit Cullberg)

131_83

Radio operetta, Gult, rött och blått, libretto by Georg Eliasson (Swedish Radio, 1940)

131_84

Radio operetta, Den glada patiencen, libretto by Georg Eliasson (Swedish Radio, 1941)

131_85

Incidental music for Madame Bovary, (Gustave Flaubert), Blancheteatern 1939

131_86

Stage music for Amorina (Carl Jonas Love Almqvist), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1951

131_87

Music for The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare (1943), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern

131_88

Incidental music for Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1953

131_89

Stage music for Gudens hustru, (Vilhelm Moberg), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1954

131_90

Music for A midsummer night’s dream, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1955

131_91

Music for The Queen's Tiara (Carl Jonas Love Almqvist), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1957

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Ballet Take your place on stage

131_93

Ballet, Den elaka drottningen, Sveriges Television 1960, choreography by Birgit Cullberg

131_94

Stage music for Hamlet (Shakespeare), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1960

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Stage music for King John (Shakespeare), Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 1961

131_96

Film music Man glömmer ingenting (One Forgets Nothing) (1942)

131_97

Oss tjuvar emellan eller En burk ananas (1945) Grönt guld (1949) Only a Mother (1949)

131_98

Miss Julie (1951) A Lesson in Love (1954) Wild Birds (1955) The Phantom Carriage (1958)

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De sista stegen (A matter of morals) (1961)

131_100

Recordings

131_101

As conductor Wirén recorded his Sinfonietta in May 1948 for Cupol, reissued on Phono Suecia PSCD

131_102

79, 1995.

131_103

References

131_104

External links A list of Wirén autographs with some information about dates

131_105

Broadcast from 1960 of Wirén's Violin Concerto Op. 23 (British Library)

131_106

1905 births 1986 deaths 20th-century classical composers Litteris et Artibus recipients

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Swedish opera composers Male opera composers Royal College of Music, Stockholm alumni

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People from Nora Municipality Swedish classical composers Swedish male classical composers

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Swedish classical pianists Male classical pianists Swedish film score composers

131_110

Male film score composers Swedish music critics 20th-century classical pianists

131_111

20th-century Swedish male musicians 20th-century Swedish musicians

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Jason Eli Becker (born July 22, 1969) is an American virtuoso musician, songwriter and composer. At

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the age of 16, he became part of the Shrapnel Records-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty